Tropical Timber Program IDH

Tropical Timber Program

The Sustainable Trade Initiative has, in cooperation with other partners, set up the Congo Basin Program. The Congo Basin Program is part of IDH's Tropical Timber Program. IDH is the main funder and also plays a role in advising and supporting Form in their role as program coordinator.

IDH’s mission is to accelerate and upscale the sustainable production and the trade of commodities in collaboration with private partners, civil society organizations and governments. Core strategy of the Tropical Timber Program is to improve the business case for change by supporting certification in tropical timber producing regions AND to increase the market share of sustainable tropical timber in Europe. Regularly, ideas are shared with the various sister programs: The Amazone Alternative, The Borneo Initiative, and Linking Europe.

The Amazon Alternative aims for FSC certification of 2.5 million hectares by 2013. It partners with private enterprises and forest communities. Focus lies on Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.

The Borneo Initiative aims to bring 13 million ha of forest under FSC certification by 2015. It works together with private enterprises and focuses on Indonesia, mainly Borneo.

The Linking Europe program's goal is to stimulate the demand for sustainably produced timber in 3 European countries. It does so by working together with key-accounts, governments and existing initiatives.

FSC Netherlands stimulates the market for FSC certified timber in the Netherlands. Goal is to bring the share of FSC certified timber on the Dutch market to 33% by 2013. Further, it stimulates cooperation and FSC Netherlands supports the Tropical Timber Program on communication.

Want to participate?

The CBP assists and guides concession holders in the process to FSC certification and better market position through co-funding of a number of relevant services. If you are interested in participating, please contact us.

Partners

‘By becoming a partner of the Congo Basin Program, Corà Wood Gabon shows its firm commitment to continuously improving its forest harvesting practices with a clear objective to reach the performance level as required by the principles and criteria of the FSC standard for sustainable forestry before the end of 2015.’

Corà Wood Gabon S.A.Forestry company

‘ROUGIER Group is strongly committed to the process of certification of good forest management. As this process is long and mobilizes many resources both human and financial, a program such as IDH is very useful to support companies like ROUGIER in helping them to achieve this certification. That's why we decided to become the first partner in this program.’